Being Rossetti’s most famous poem, “Goblin Market” has been reviewed, criticized and analyzed endlessly. The poem of the two sisters Laura and Lizzie and their encounters with the seductive goblin merchants has been viewed as a story about moral temptation, children’s greed, and sexual desire and seduction. Mostly viewed as fantasy or fairy tale, this poem can also be interpreted as a Gothic story with its underlying tones of moral deprivation, the tormenting cries of the goblin merchants’ “come buy, come buy”, the stark contrasts between night and day and the two sisters’ personalities, and the goblins’ shift in demeanor between friendly and evil. The rural life of the two sisters, their daily work and the biblical morality of the story can
